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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longer than ordinary Pullmans, modern horse cars have open interiors, are partitioned into stalls to suit horse owners, can accommodate up to 24 horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seasoned Biscuit | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...perfect Nelly O'Brien." But Lady Rice resembles a very different person, who by the turn and tilt of her head, her sidewise and dreamy look, is distinguished and gentle. Reynolds' subdued colors, the faint blues for her gown, and the gray-greens for the trees and sky, suit her perfectly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...Animals heard about Mr. Burns's electric fence, asked for an injunction to compel him to remove it. Few days later the Philadelphia Electric Co. tested the fence, pronounced its amperage too low to harm dogs or children, and the S. P. C. A. called off the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hot Wire | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...present setup was monopolistic or unjust, he declared: "I resent such an indictment. There's nothing I consider more un-American and unsportsmanlike than the fixing of prices." ¶ Pressed its antimonopoly trial of vast Aluminum Co. of America. Year ago last week the Department of Justice filed suit for the dissolution of this $236,000,000 foundation of the Mellon empire. By one legal maneuver after another ALCOA delayed the trial until it was finally scheduled to start May 2 in Manhattan. Three weeks ago the Department of Justice filed a petition to subpoena ALCOA's files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Depression hit Benson & Rixon for only a moment; in 1933 the annual gross was again $2,000,000 and President Benson's enthusiasm was still aggressive and undampened. Now he is booming a new experiment, the three-pants suit. This consists of the standard two-pants article plus an odd pair of different pattern. Benson & Rixon buys the odd pants separately, sells them at cost (a $26 two-pants suit sells for only $29.50 as a three-pants suit). By last week the chain had sold 2,900 three-pants suits in three weeks. Said beaming 55-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More & More Pants | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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